if you sit down and think about it, almost everything in life is based on luck. there is no such thing as winning from skill hardwork and determination. everything has to do with sheer dumb luck.
everyone loves to say there's a purpose or meaning or a grand design, and i agree, there is a grand design and that design is pure rng. everything in life is randomised, where you spawn, your background traits, your starting faction, your attributes, there is literally no customization before spawn and all your stats are randomly allocated. same applies for any loot you encounter or any traits you can feasibly learn.
for instance if you spawn in the africa server in the congolese faction, you're stuck in a region where you have several stats debuffs (esp w exp gain) right at spawn and further the rng is skewed so that most loot is just grey. but because it is rng there is a tiny percent of purple or even gold loot that you can get if you're lucky but often times high value loot in these regions are cursed.
if you think about it, becoming successful through school, college and employment is a scam. yeah you gain a lot of exp in educational institutions provided you had good rng with spawn gold. but the thing is you can only invest the xp gained in college into specific abilities and skills and attributes that you dont know would be relevant or not in your next encounter as it is purely rng. by the time you pick a program for your undergrad you dont know how the profession will look like by the time you graduate. people who did html in the 90s did not know it was gonna blow up during the end of the decade, and a fuck ton of people got rich off it. people saw the drastic growth and started studying the same and by the time the followers completed their education, the dot com bubble burst and these guys couldnt land jobs. same can be said about pretty much any industry.
if you go further back in time and look at ancient societies: for instance say you are in a medieval village and you fuck around and luckily figure out how to piece together an armour. now you're the only armourer in the village and because probability, you can make a lot more coin than the peasants and the guards who would be dependent on you for their protection goods. again in this case you need to be lucky enough that the guards appreciate your quaility and pay you your coin instead of straight up threatening and robbing you.
The same concept can apply to us. we probably got the worst rng w regards to physical attributes although some of us had decent rng with starting loot so that we can just spend the whole game just using the wait function (neet). your starting faction is very very very crucial in dictating your future rng as some factions hand out free loot if you dont have any while some factions straight up give you debuffs just to being with. even meeting companions is pure rng, there arent any scripted dialogue or responses so every interaction is purely random.
the only issue is that the balancing of rng is terrible (worse than platinuming ds3). you can get rng modifiers to an extent (for instance switching factions) but again these modifiers are also defined by rng as you need to have to do specific faction quests to be able to join a new faction and these quests are again determined by rng. a player could be able to switch factions pretty easily after 3 or 4 quests while another player would have to spend several years grinding these quests. the outcome of faction acceptance is again rng so these quests are not guaranteed successes no matter how "good" you are.
the worst thing is, we don't know if there is a respawn function, if there is we can easily keep dying and respawning to get better rng until we get the right ones
everyone loves to say there's a purpose or meaning or a grand design, and i agree, there is a grand design and that design is pure rng. everything in life is randomised, where you spawn, your background traits, your starting faction, your attributes, there is literally no customization before spawn and all your stats are randomly allocated. same applies for any loot you encounter or any traits you can feasibly learn.
for instance if you spawn in the africa server in the congolese faction, you're stuck in a region where you have several stats debuffs (esp w exp gain) right at spawn and further the rng is skewed so that most loot is just grey. but because it is rng there is a tiny percent of purple or even gold loot that you can get if you're lucky but often times high value loot in these regions are cursed.
if you think about it, becoming successful through school, college and employment is a scam. yeah you gain a lot of exp in educational institutions provided you had good rng with spawn gold. but the thing is you can only invest the xp gained in college into specific abilities and skills and attributes that you dont know would be relevant or not in your next encounter as it is purely rng. by the time you pick a program for your undergrad you dont know how the profession will look like by the time you graduate. people who did html in the 90s did not know it was gonna blow up during the end of the decade, and a fuck ton of people got rich off it. people saw the drastic growth and started studying the same and by the time the followers completed their education, the dot com bubble burst and these guys couldnt land jobs. same can be said about pretty much any industry.
if you go further back in time and look at ancient societies: for instance say you are in a medieval village and you fuck around and luckily figure out how to piece together an armour. now you're the only armourer in the village and because probability, you can make a lot more coin than the peasants and the guards who would be dependent on you for their protection goods. again in this case you need to be lucky enough that the guards appreciate your quaility and pay you your coin instead of straight up threatening and robbing you.
The same concept can apply to us. we probably got the worst rng w regards to physical attributes although some of us had decent rng with starting loot so that we can just spend the whole game just using the wait function (neet). your starting faction is very very very crucial in dictating your future rng as some factions hand out free loot if you dont have any while some factions straight up give you debuffs just to being with. even meeting companions is pure rng, there arent any scripted dialogue or responses so every interaction is purely random.
the only issue is that the balancing of rng is terrible (worse than platinuming ds3). you can get rng modifiers to an extent (for instance switching factions) but again these modifiers are also defined by rng as you need to have to do specific faction quests to be able to join a new faction and these quests are again determined by rng. a player could be able to switch factions pretty easily after 3 or 4 quests while another player would have to spend several years grinding these quests. the outcome of faction acceptance is again rng so these quests are not guaranteed successes no matter how "good" you are.
the worst thing is, we don't know if there is a respawn function, if there is we can easily keep dying and respawning to get better rng until we get the right ones
